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COMDIS-HSD

COMDIS-HSD

Participants gather for a community dialogue session in Mozambique. Malaria Consortium’s COMDIS-HSD project seeks to examine the community dialogues approach as a method of improving knowledge and practices for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis.

COMDIS-HSD

A pregnant woman receives intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) at a health facility in Uganda as part of her antenatal care. Malaria Consortium has been conducting research to determine which barriers are holding back the uptake of IPTp in Uganda.

COMDIS-HSD

A community health worker trained in integrated community case management (iCCM) measures the respiratory rate of a sick child. Malaria Consortium has been conducting a study to compare iCCM in both rural and peri-urban settings in Uganda.

COMDIS-HSD

Staff from the Mundubi Rural Health Centre, which is located in one of the study districts for Malaria Consortium’s research on case management of pneumonia. The study, which was carried out in Zambia, explored the rational use of antibiotics at community level by community health workers (CHW) and caregivers, for treatment of pneumonia.

Project Details

CountriesEthiopiaMozambiqueMyanmarUgandaZambia

DonorUK aid from the UK government

Start Date01/01/2011

End Date31/12/2018

Project Overview

COMDIS-HSD is a Research Programme Consortium (RPC) which carries out research projects across a variety of settings in order to improve delivery of health services for underserved populations, with a focus on communicable diseases. The RPC is funded by the UK Government and coordinated by The Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds. Malaria Consortium is one of six COMDIS-HSD partners.

COMDIS-HSD seeks to influence policy and practice by focusing its research on seven thematic areas: